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Iku-Shamagan
Iku-Shamagan, also read Ikun-Shamagan, was an early Early Dynastic king of Mari on the middle Euphrates, known from royal inscriptions and a 92 cm statuette in the Damascus Museum.
Ikun-Mari
Ikun-Mari is an early king of Mari on the middle Euphrates, known only from a royal-inscription corpus entry and dated to about the 25th century BC.
Ikun-Shamash
Ikun-Shamash (Iku(n)-Šamaš) was a king of Mari on the middle Euphrates during the Early Dynastic period, known from a votive inscription by his courtier Arra-Ilum.
Ikunum
Ikunum was a king of Aššur in the early Old Assyrian period, son of Erišum I and father of Sargon I, reigning about 1934–1920 BC.
Il (king of Umma)
Il, also read Ila, was a Sumerian king of Umma during Early Dynastic IIIb, known from his own inscription and from hostile Lagash accounts of the border conflict.
Ila-kabkabu
Ila-kabkabu was a ruler associated with Terqa on the middle Euphrates, best known as the father of Šamši-Adad I, who ruled Assyria for 33 years.
Ili-Ishar
Ili-Ishar (Ili-išar) was a shakkanakku, a military governor, of Mari on the middle Euphrates, one of the later holders of the office, first held by Ishtup-Ilum.
Ili-pada
Ili-pada, also written Ili-ipadda, was a Middle Assyrian grand vizier and 'king of Hanigalbat' who administered the western empire under Tukulti-Ninurta I's successors, about 1197 to 1183 BC.
Ili-pada archive
The Ili-pada archive, named for Grand Vizier Aššur-iddin (Ili-pada), is a Middle Assyrian archive of about 680 cuneiform tablets excavated at Dur-Katlimmu, modern Tell Sheikh Hamad in Syria.
Ilku
Ilku is a legendary early king of Kish in the Sumerian King List, assigned a 900-year reign and known only from later copies of the list.
Ilshu-rabi
Ilšu-rabi was governor (ensi) of Pašime under the Akkadian king Maništušu around 2270 BC; his stele, dedicated to the god Šuda, was excavated at Tell Abu Sheeja in 2007.
Iltani
Iltani was an Old Babylonian princess of Karana in northwestern Iraq, daughter of King Samu-Addu and wife of the diviner Aqba-Hammu, in the early 18th century BC.
Iltasadum
Iltasadum is a king of the First Dynasty of Kish known only from the Sumerian King List, which assigns him a reign of 1,200 years before Enmebaragesi.
Ilu-Mer
Ilu-Mer is an early king of Assyria known only from the Assyrian King List, which records him as the son of Hayani and father of Yakmesi.
Ilu-shumma
Ilu-shumma (Ilu-šumma, also Ilushuma) was an early ruler of the city-state of Assur around 1975 BCE, known for an inscription granting freedom to the Akkadians.
Ilulu
Ilulu (𒅋𒇽) was a ruler of the Dynasty of Akkad, dated to the 2190s BC, named in the Sumerian King List as the last of four rival kings after Shar-kali-sharri.
Ilum-ma-ili
Ilum-ma-ili, also written Ili-ma-ilu, was the founder and first king of the First Sealand dynasty, a southern Mesopotamian state that broke away from Babylon around 1720 BCE.
Ilūni
Ilūni was a ruler of the Mesopotamian kingdom of Eshnunna in the Old Babylonian period, defeated and put to death by Samsu-iluna, Hammurabi's son and successor.
IM 67118
IM 67118 is an Old Babylonian mathematical clay tablet from the Eshnunna region, kept in the National Museum of Iraq, known for an early proof of the Pythagorean rule.
Imdi-ilum
Imdi-ilum was an Old Assyrian merchant who directed his family's trading firm at Kanesh, running caravans of tin and textiles between Ashur and Anatolia from 1888 to 1876 BC.
Imi (king of Akkad)
Imi was a king of Akkad named in the Sumerian King List as one of four rivals who shared a 3-year reign after Shar-Kali-Sharri's death, around 2192–2190 BC.
Imsu
Imsu (Imšu) was, according to the Assyrian King List, the seventh of seventeen early "kings who lived in tents", named between Mandaru and Harsu, with no recorded reign length.
Imta
Imta, also given as Nibia, was a Gutian ruler of the late 3rd millennium BC, named in later tradition as the first Gutian king ruling in Sumer.
Inibsharri
Inibsharri (Inib-Šarri) was a princess of Mari and daughter of King Zimrī-Lîm in the 18th century BC, twice married to vassal kings of the Habur region.
Inibshina
Inibshina (Inib-šīna) was an Old Babylonian princess of Ešnunna, daughter of King Daduša, known only from an inscribed balance weight found at Assur that may point to a marriage alliance with Assyria.
Inimabakesh
Inimabakeš was a Gutian ruler named in the Sumerian King List, credited with a 5-year reign over Sumer and Akkad after the fall of the Akkadian Empire.
Inkishush
Inkishush, also known as Inkišush, was a Gutian ruler of Mesopotamia named in the Sumerian King List, which credits him with a six-year reign after Imta.
Innaya
Innāya was an Old Assyrian merchant of the early second millennium BC, known from tablet archives at Kanesh in Anatolia, who traded tin and textiles between Assur and Anatolia.
Inscriptions of Ur-Nanshe
The Inscriptions of Ur-Nanshe are roughly 40 surviving royal inscriptions of Ur-Nanshe, first king of the First Dynasty of Lagash, chiefly recording his building of temples, walls, and canals.
Instructions of Shuruppak
The Instructions of Shuruppak is a Sumerian wisdom text in which Shuruppak gives moral instruction to his son Ziusudra, with copies dated to about 2600–2500 BC.